title: [Pathobiochemistry of mineral and trace elements. I. Concentration of zinc in the whole blood and serum of pregnant women and newborn (author's transl)].
abstract: The behavior of the zinc level in whole blood and in the serum of 158 gravid patients during the 10th ot the 40th week of pregnancy is studied as well as that of 154 mothers and newborns immediately post partum. The analytic results are related or correlated with the blood groups and rhesus factors of the mothers with the sex of the newborn as well as with the zinc values of mother and child. It is shown that: 1. The disturbance of zinc metabolism during pregnancy in whole blood and serum is just as marked in normal pregnancies as in pathological ones. 2. Lowering of the zinc level is equally great in primiparas as well as in multiparas. 3. The blood group of the gravid patient has no influence on the level of zinc in the maternal whole blood. 4. The rhesus factor as well is of no influence on the zinc level in the whole blood and in the serum of pregnant women. 5. The zinc deficit in the already considerably lowered zinc whole blood values of newborns is significantly greater for male babies than for female babies. 6. The differences in zinc levels in mother and child show no clear-cut meaning.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001789:Blood Group Antigens; D004487:Edema / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010298:Parity; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000097:blood; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000097:blood; D012204:Rh-Hr Blood-Group System; D012737:Sex Factors; D015032:Zinc / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D001789:Blood Group Antigens; D012204:Rh-Hr Blood-Group System; D015032:Zinc
vernacular_title: Pathobiochemie von Mineral- und Spurenelementen I. Zinkkonzentration im Vollblut und Serum von Schwangeren und Neugeborenen.